Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Air Navigation Act increased the annual State subsidy to British commercial aviation from...
...March 1, a Transcontinental & Western Air passenger plane took off from San Francisco, flew into a storm, disappeared. Three months later, Prospector H. O. Collier came upon its wreckage, strewn over a Sierra Nevada mountainside. The plane had been smashed to bits, but its tail had caught in a tree, hung high as a dead goose. The weeks of fruitless search for this and other lost planes have piled added horror on the original disaster, added worry and heavy expense for airline operators...
Tabulated last week, the figures for the period from May 21 to July 1 showed that Berlin's Central Broadcasting Station of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (German Broadcasting Co.) put on the air 922 attacks on the Czechoslovak republic, 194 criticisms of President Eduard Benes or the Prague government, attacked Czechoslovak officials and law courts 172 times, insulted the honor of the Czechoslovak Army 106 times. Henlein party-propaganda broadcasts from German stations during the same period were clocked at 336, the declaration that Communists rule Czechoslovakia...
...bibulous matinee idol to whose portrayal Adolphe Menjou lends the Barrymore mannerisms that have become traditional for such roles since The Royal Family. These, and Director John Stahl's watchful, vivid treatment of situations which would have been threadbare with less careful handling, give the picture exactly that air of conviction in which most such fables are deficient...
...dump valves. What had happened they did not know. The Hearst press suggested that since one of the passengers, a Jersey City, N. J. restaurant owner named Wah Sun Choy, was carrying money to China, was it not a case of Japanese sabotage? An investigator from the Bureau of Air Commerce started from Washington, with little hope of discovering anything. Meanwhile, the Hawaii Clipper'?, sister ships, the China Clipper and the Philippine Clipper, coolly flew their scheduled routes, passing each other in mid-Pacific...